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Dec. 21, 1943. J. F. BROADFOOT PACKAGE Filed Nov. 29, 1941 INVENTOR I 2 F7 3/0 ad/af Patented Dec. 21, 1943 PACKAGE John F. Broadfoohlohnston, R. Application November 29, 1941, Serial No. 421,029

' (oi. 229-14) Y I 2 Claims.

This invention relates to a package and while it may be used for general purposes, it is specifically intended for use in connection with the delivery of clean laundry to the customer..

In the delivery of clean laundry it is desirable to provide a generally rectangular package of sufficient stiffness and durable quality to protect the laundry within. To do this, cardboard is usually used, both for its shaping properties in making the package rectangular and because it is suitable to protect the laundry during delivery. The use of cardboard is expensive, both from the standpoint of material itself and from the standpoint of the operations necessary to be performed upon the cardboard in order that it may have the desired shape.

One object of this invention is to provide a package which will reduce the cost of materials .used and, while cardboard is used in the package,

it is so arranged that the cardboard may be used over again, while leaving a complete paperwrapped package intact to be left with the customer.

Another object of thi invention is to provide a paper package of light weight material which may be readilyloaded and when loaded sealed for delivery to the customer, while the arrangement for delivery is such that the package is within a cardboard protecting container until the package is discharged from the container all sealed and intact at its point of destination, while th used protecting container may be returned to the laundry processor for re-use.'

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, as will be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing:

walls, while there is a flexible strap which may extend about the top and bottom walls to hold them in closed position. box I provide a lightweight, paper liner or envelope for the package, which is folded to provide a bottom with upstanding opposite side walls with flaps which extend up and beyond the top of these side walls to compare with the flaps of the outer box' and which may be manipulated with these outer flaps for opening up the box and its liner or envelope for the reception of material to be placed within to form the package, the arrangement being such that 'the liner after closure forms a package withinthe outer box, sealed and intact, so that it may be discharged from the outer box and the outer box maybe returned to the delivery man for re-use.

With reference to the drawing in greater detail, the container consists of the outer box with opposite side walls l0 and opposite end walls H usually formed of one piece of material folded at the corners l2 and suitably reinforced asat I3, while leaving these comers free for collapsing the box for storage. The walls I0 extend upwardly to provide flaps I4 and extend downwardly to provide flaps l5 while th wall H extend upwardly to provide flaps l6 and extend downwardly to provide flaps I'I. These flaps as they extend above or below the side walls l0 and II are disconnected at'the comers and entirely sep-' arated one from the other. The flaps are also creased to provide a hingelike relationship with the top and bottom edges of the side walls, so that they may be folded inwardly or outwardly at will.

A strap, designated generally I8 is stapled at I9 to one wall of the box to extend vertically thereof, and is of suflicient length to embrace the box.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the outside con-' tainer in condition for delivery from the laundry.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrating this con- 1tainer with the top and bottom in extended posiion.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the liner or pack age envelope prior to its being positioned in the outer container shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a perspectiv view of the outside container and liner or envelope opened.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the liner without the container, or as it is delivered to the customer.

In proceeding with this invention I have provided .a relatively-heavy stiff cardboard outer protecting box as the container which has in-' wardly foldable flaps to form top and bottom The strap is provided with a buckle 20 consisting of a hooked portion 2| and a bar 22 for engagement therewith to hold the box in closed position.

This outer box forms a protecting carrier for an inner wrapped package which wrapping is formed from a lightweight piece of paper in cementing it as at 25. The upper edges of the envelope or bag so arranged are slit as at 26 so as to leave corners 21 joined and thus provide flaps 28 and 29 at the upper edge thereof.

This envelope or bag is positioned within the alter box as a lining therefor by its bottom walls Within this cardboard being folded inwardly into position with its side walls extending along and in contact with the side walls I and 'II of the outer box whileits flaps to are folded outwardly with the flaps I4,

and its flaps 29 are folded outwardly with the flaps it at the top of the box. See Fig. 4. .By

this arrangement the flaps of the liner or bag are held firmly in position outwardly against the after which the strap is positioned as heretofore ass-mm thin paper loosely positioned in the box and functioning as a liner for said box having a bottom and, four walls of a single thickness extending up along the opposite pairs ofwalls of the box and connected at their adjacent ends along the connected portions of the'walls of the box, said bag-like container being slit adjacent the corners of the box to provide flaps disconnected at the corners which extend along the flaps of the box and foldable with said box flaps outwardly to 7 aiford greater access to the box and foldable inwardly independently'of the box flaps to secure laundry in said paper liner to be discharged from said outerbox as a separate package, and means described and the package is delivered to the cus-120 Upon arrival at the customer's destination the delivery man unhooks' the strap and the sealed paper package within is dropped out of the bottom or top of the box by gravity, all in sealed condition and fully protected during transportation where injury is most liable to occur. Thus a rectangular sealed bundle is delivered to the customer with the clean laundry'within. The outer boxis then returned to the laundry processor for re-use. v v

ZBy the-arrangement which I have provided the liner conforms to the box by reason, of its out upper edges for the flaps of the box so; that it may be manipulated with'the box while it remains separate and independent. therefrom.

I claim; I

1. A generally rectangular laundry container comprising a relatively stifl collapsible cardboard outer box having two pair of opposite walls hingedly joined at their meeting edges, flapsconsisting of wall extensions hingedly connected by folds to the upper and lower edges of each of said walls to foldinwardly and provide top and bottom closures for the box, said upper flaps ,being foldable outwardly along the outer surface for holding said top and bottom box flaps inunattached closed position.

2, A generally rectangular laundry container said walls to fold inwardly'and provide top and bottom closures. for the box, said upper flaps being foldable outwardly along the outer surface of the box walls, and a container of relatively thin paper loosely positioned in the box and functioning as a liner for said box having a bottom and four walls of a single thickness extending up along the opposite pairs of walls of the box and connected at their adjacent ends along the connected portions of the wallsof the box; said bag-like container being slit adjacent the corners of the box to provide flaps disconnected at the comers which extend along the flaps of the box and foldable with said box flaps outwardly to aflord greater access to the box and foldable inwardly independently of the box flaps-and a of-the box walls,-" and a containerof relatively.

flexible strap secured intermediate the ends thereof to the exterior of one oi?v the side walls for extending across the bottom and top closures to embrace said box, and with the ends of said strap each provided with means cooperating with each other todetachably secure the ends of said strap to each other for holding said top and bottomflaps in unattached closed position.

- JOHN F. BROADFOOT. 

